The reasons for tiger deaths in the country are beginning to show.Members of the National Board for Wildlife, the apex conservation body chaired by the Prime Minister, wrote to him on Tuesday saying decisions approved by him, including the one on forming a sub-committee for the tiger, are not being followed and even minutes of meetings are not being properly recorded.

The board has 15 independent members, who say that a sub-committee formed to look into the issue of tiger conservation has not actually been formed. “The National Board for Wildlife is failing the nation as the minutes of meetings are being erroneously recorded,” they said.

In a meeting of the Standing Committee with Minister of Forests and Wildlife S Regupathy on Tuesday, the members said that they could no longer be a part of any decision until the ones taken in previous meetings were followed up.

The members had written to the PM on December 24 also, where they gave an instance of “erroneous recording of the minutes of the meetings”. It was decided in one of the meetings to take “immediate measures to create a Tiger Protection force”.

However, members pointed out that “this was recorded as Central assistance is being provided for creation of a Tiger Protection Force comprising ex-Army personnel and people from local communities complementing the efforts of the field staff”. Such an approach was diluting the issue, they added.

Some of the decisions taken on November last year included formation of a sub-committee to look into tiger conservation, marine protected areas and the impact of the Forest Rights Act.

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